Unit Testing in the Linux Kernel

Posted by bob on Jan 3, 2019 10:48 AM EDT
Linux Journal; By Zack Brown
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Brendan Higgins recently proposed adding unit tests to the Linux kernel, supplementing other development infrastructure such as perf, autotest and kselftest. The whole issue of testing is very dear to kernel developers' hearts, because Linux sits at the core of the system and often has a very strong stability/security requirement. Hosts of automated tests regularly churn through kernel source code, reporting any oddities to the mailing list.

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